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Jim O'Neill, a former chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management and former Commercial Secretary to the UK Treasury, is Honorary Professor of Economics at Manchester University and former Chairman of the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance.

While there is indeed a need to find new antibiotics there is equally a need to be more responsible in the usage of the antibiotics that we have. This is especially true with regard to the use of antibiotics in the livestock industry.

A recent study (30 January 2015) by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) concluded that the number of milligrams of antibiotics administered per kilo of biomass was higher in animals than humans - http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/pub/4006.htm

As there is no guarantee that increased investment will lead to the discovery of new antibiotics, action now on more responsible use should really be self evident. We must ask ourselves the question whether cheap meat and milk today is really worth the risk of dying from the common cold in the future?

Former BRICS honcho of Goldman is interested in antimicrobial resistance, and chairs a committee, demanding 0.1% of GLOBAL GDP......or else! Reminds me of the racial ostracization of MDM-1, when the US News Media openly announced that Brown People from certian Geographies were not to be touched with a ten foot pole nor allowed into or out of hospitals......i kid you not. Love you Goldman, Love you.

Predictable that a Goldman Sachs guy would ignore the most important long-term solution: reduce the commercial use of antibiotics. If phara companies would leash in their promotion of these products (they spend more money promoting their products than on research); if doctors would stop prescribing antibiotics as if they were aspirin; if agribusiness would place public health above its own bottom line, we would have a fighting chance to combat drug-resistant disease.

From
http://www.microbeworld.org/what-is-a-microbe
"Microbes are in the air we breathe, the ground we walk on, the food we eat—they're even inside us!

We couldn't digest food without them—animals couldn't, either. Without microbes, plants couldn't grow, garbage wouldn't decay and there would be a lot less oxygen to breathe."

Sponsored-Science that thinks first of funding for grant approval will never criticize its fundamental assumptions. In this time-shifted (start your history at the point in the curve desired to prove the conclusion as the wool of time is being pulled over hazy eyes) justification of enterprise, the result is a construction described by the known-in-advance, and well-subscribed-to. result.
Henry Hazlitt said all economics could be reduced to one sentence:
"The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups."
Science has no unintended consequences since discovered physical phenomena are agnostic of agenda or sponsorship
Experience leaves connections and traces of facts: that overuse of anti-biotics has evolutionary consequences that are not intended, and here are completely ignored by assertion of good medicine is delivering bad (anti-biotic) poison Such 'supporting your local sheriff' schemes doesn't make good law behind the badge.

Protecting biodiversity and maintaining beneficial bacteria doesn't need a war mentality, rather the opposite, understanding thoroughly and bio-dynamically criticizing simple facts found by anyone, for nothing, in the studied and relentless direct individual observation of nature, not narrative generals directing cash to their good-guy arms dealers.
For the purpose and beyond this tired effort, Henry Hazlitt was the only scientist the economics as social gaming business needs.